Mary Louise (Willman) Eganhouse 1918-2002

EGANHOUSE, WILLMAN, FRENCH, BRUNSCHEEN

Posted By: CHERYL MOONEN (email)
Date: 7/28/2018 at 22:23:28

Gazette, The (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA) - Monday, December 2, 2002

Mary Louise Eganhouse, 84, of Wyoming, Iowa, died Friday, Nov. 29, 2002, in ManorCare, Cedar Rapids, following an extended illness. Her body was cremated. Private services will be at a later date. Hayden Cremation Service, Wyoming, was in charge of arrangements.

She was born Jan. 24, 1918, in Anamosa, Iowa, the daughter of Joseph and Ada French Willman. Mary Louise attended the Wyoming schools and graduated in 1935. As a young woman, she worked as a switchboard operator at Wyoming Telephone Co. During World War II, she worked as a secretary in the FBI and then for the U.S. Postal Service in Washington, D.C. On May 31, 1948, she married George Eganhouse at Stone City, Iowa. The couple lived in Hiawatha from 1952-1964 and in Cedar Rapids from 1965-1970s. In the early 1970s, they moved to Wyoming, where they lived until 1998 when they both entered ManorCare in Cedar Rapids. George died in 1999.

Mary Louise is survived by a daughter, Deborah Eganhouse of El Paso, Texas; a son, Philip Eganhouse and wife Kerry of Iowa City; and four grandsons, Aaron Brunscheen of Ames, Jacob Eganhouse and wife Brandy of Des Moines, David Eganhouse of Fort Worth, Texas, and George Joseph Eganhouse of Iowa City; and a great-grandson, Rielly Eganhouse.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and two brothers.